LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards Presented By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 1990
Silver Medal for Gallantry Coxswain Alan Thomas, Tenby, Dyfed.
On 22 September 1989 the Tenby Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels in difficulties off Worms Head. The...
Category: Awards
A New Life-Boat Was Named Vincent Nesfield By Mr Esmond Knight the Actor at a Ceremony at Eastbourne on 9Th April 1969 the Life-Boat Was Provided from the Proceed
A new life-boat was named Vincent Nesfield by Mr. Esmond Knight, the actor, at a ceremony at Eastbourne on 9th April, 1969. The life-boat was provided from the proceeds of the Joyce Giddins Fund and two legacies. She has joined the reserve... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aldeburgh: When at Low Water on August 17 1977 the 42' Beach Lifeboat the Alfred and Patience Gottwald Could Not Clear the Beach on Launching Aldeburgh''s D C
Aldeburgh: When, at low water on August 17, 1977, the 42' Beach lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald could not clear the beach on launching, Aldeburgh''s D class ILB was launched in an easterly near gale to go to the help of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
These Two Whisky Bottles Contained Over £200 Collected By Customers of the White Hart Aldeburgh to Put Towards the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Appeal the Two Men About to Take a Short Cut to Emptyi
These two whisky bottles contained over £200 collected by customers of the White Hart, Aldeburgh, to put towards the Aldeburgh lifeboat appeal. The two men about to lake a short cut to emptying the bottles are (I.) John Driver and (r.)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...
Category: Articles
To the Rescue of a London Barge at Walton-on-Naze
THE barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their way from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize on the 4th November, 1939.
When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by an easterly gale. Both barges turned...
Category: Services
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron RE at Work on the Track at Kirkcudbright Scotland Which Leads to the Life-Boat Station and (Below) the Finished Track Which Took T
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
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Some of the 100 Participants of Penwortham Lancashire
Some of the 100 participants of Penwortham, Lancashire, branch's sponsored swim are checked in by Mrs Openshaw and Mrs M. P.
Dewhurst, branch honorary secretary. This, like so many sponsored swims, was very successful... - View image in PDF
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(Right) the Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats Is Responsible for the Efficient Operation of Lifeboats In His Area and Carries Out Frequent Exercises With His Coxswains and Cre
(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November and December, 1938, and January, 1939, Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally...
Category: Services